It is a great resort for turtle in the season of depositing their eggs.

Yet he can tell a good, big story yet, and when somebody was talking of turtles of good size, jumped up suddenly, "Did you ever see a terrapin, Sir?" and then walked round the long dining-table to tell how big he was and how high he stood on his feet.

Also every motion of the wood-turtle on the shore is betrayed by their rustling there.

The craft is turned bottom upwards, the yoke adjusted to the shoulders, the iron projections fitted into the sockets, and the boatman marches off with his boat, like a turtle with his shell upon his back.

What was there left for her? Once, as a child, she had taken a turtle from its native mud and brought it home.

"Let's try the first figure," said the Mock Turtle to the Gryphon.

The blacks threatened them continually, though at times they would lay down their arms and bring pieces of fish and turtle into the camp; but this only the better to spy out their weakness.

" "Once," said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, "I was a real turtle.

In the morning open the turtle by leaning heavily with a knife on the shell of the animal's back, whilst you cut this off all round.

There is Tom's gunpowder, Dick's fishhooks, and one of Professor Gazzy's famous turtles for Harry.

I will take the egg of the Turtle as an illustration, since that has been the subject of my own especial study; but, as I do not intend to carry my remarks beyond the period during which the history of all vertebrate eggs is the same, they may be considered of more general application.

Let this boil, till no white scum rises; then take with a skimmer all the bits of turtle out of the sauce, and put them in a clean stewpan: when you have all out, pour the soup over the bits of turtle, through a tammy, and proceed as follows: QUENELLES À TORTUE.Make some quenelles à tortue, which being substitutes for eggs, do not require to be very delicate.